La Duse - Bust of woman - Eleanora Duse
Oil on cardboard? — 1906-7 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: La Duse - Bust of woman - Eleanora Duse.
- Date
- 1906-7 ?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard (Patani - Ceroni: Oil on canvas - Pfannstiel Oil: on cardboard)
- Dimensions
- 32.7 x 24.8 cm ( Ceroni 33 x 27 - Patani 32.5 x 24.5 - in old auction catalogue 40 x 30)
- Signature
- Signed top left (Pfannstiel say the back with ink the text "Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, Etude ?)
- Present location
- Private Collection ?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 1 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 9 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 1 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 5 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Research Project | YES |
Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Research Project are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.
Provenance
- Paul Alexandre, Paris
- Sale Hotel Drouot - Tableaux Modernes, 18 7 February / 1921 - Lot 63 as Portrait de la Duse. Toile - 40 x 30
- Jonas Netter, Paris?
- Sale Hotel Drouot - Tableaux Modernes, 15 / June / 1945
- Lot 110 as Portrait de la Duse. Toile marouflée.- 33 x 25
- Sold price: 180.000 FF
- Galerie Beres, Paris
- Swiss collection, Ca. 1980
- Galerie Pierre-Yves Gabus, Beveix
- Sale Christie´s
- London, 23 / June / 2004, Sale no. 6921- Lot 259
- Est. 91.250 - 127.750 USD - sold 130.853 USD
- Private collection
The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.
Selected bibliography
Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places.
- Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 11
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 12
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 13
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 94
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 1 (as oil on canvas wrong size)5
- Martigny, F. P. Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990, no. 4- Ill. p. 78 - 207
- Parisot, Modigliani la vita. Le opere, Carte Secrete Editore, 2006, illustrated.6
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 20077
Exhibitions
- Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - no. 4
Notes
Pfannstiel mentions that in the back there is a sketch of the hands of the artist made with ink
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.